A new boke of the nature and properties of all Wines that are commonlye vsed here in England , with a confutation of an errour of some men , that holde , that Rhennish and other small white wines ought not to be drunken of them that either haue , or are in daunger of the stone , the reuine , and diuers other disease , made by William Turner , doctor of Phisicke . Whervnto is annexed the booke of the natures and vertues of Triacles , newly corrected and set foorth againe by the sayde William Turner . (TURNER-E1-P1,A.2) Of the Natures , properties , profits , hurtes and helps that come of Wyne . (TURNER-E1-P1,B1R.5) Although the order of learning do require , that euerye man that shall write of anye thing , should declare & open by definitio~ it that he entendeth to entreate of : yet nede not I as I iudge going about to write of wine , to take any great paine to make a definition of it , bicause all men , women and childer , that are cummed to any perfite age , know well inough that Wine is the iuice of grapes pressed out , and put vp into vessels , to be drunken afterwards at co~uenient times of men , for diuerse endes and purposes that the Grape maker hath ordeyned it for . (TURNER-E1-P1,B1R.7) For manye great causes , it shall be more necessarye to diuide Wine into his kindes and sortes , that thereby the reader may the better know what kinds of Wines are best for what endes and purposes . (TURNER-E1-P1,B1V.8) Wines may be numbred and diuided either by the countrie and places that they grow in , or by their colors , or by the youth , or age , and by their tastes , smelles , and by properties that they haue , and some of the maner of making , (TURNER-E1-P1,B1V.9) and euery one of these kindes , may bee diuided againe into certaine other speciall sortes or vnder kindes . (TURNER-E1-P1,B1V.10) Some Wine is called Creticum of Creta , which is named in English Candie , (TURNER-E1-P1,B1V.11) some is called Graecum of Graecia , some Rhennish , bicause it groweth beside the Rhene , some Gallicum , that is French wine , bicause it groweth in France , (TURNER-E1-P1,B1V.12) and some is called Rheticum bicause it groweth in Rhetia , (TURNER-E1-P1,B1V.13) and so a greate sorte of other Wines haue their names of the countries , & places $wher $as {TEXT:wheras} they growe . (TURNER-E1-P1,B1V.14) But it is best as I thinke , first of all according to nature to intreat of new and olde Wines , and of it that is a middle Wine betwene them both . (TURNER-E1-P1,B1V.15) Of the difference of wynes by the colors . (TURNER-E1-P1,B8V.18) Plinie in the .xiiij. booke of his naturall hystorie writeth thus of the colours of Wine . Colores vinis quatuor . Albus , fuluus , sanguineus , niger , (TURNER-E1-P1,B8V.20) that is , wines haue fower colors : white , redish yellowe , sanguine and black . (TURNER-E1-P1,B8V.21) The white is well knowen to all our countriemen , (TURNER-E1-P1,B8V.22) but the other are not fullye knowen euen vnto some of the learned here in Englande . Wherefore I thinke it needefull for the better vnderstanding of it that I shall entreat of hereafter , to declare these colors , so that they maye be knowen of all men that reade this booke . (TURNER-E1-P1,B8V.23) Aulus Gellius in his second booke de noctibus atticis cap. 26 writeth , that Fuluus color videtur de rufo atque viridi mistus esse . (TURNER-E1-P1,B8V.24) that is , the color that is called in Latine Fuluus , seemeth to be merged with red and greene , (TURNER-E1-P1,B8V.25) and there seemeth in some to be more greene , and in other more red . (TURNER-E1-P1,B8V.26) And he writeth that the color called Fuluus in Latine seemeth to be made of the mengling togither of grene , red & white . (TURNER-E1-P1,C1R.27) And he writeth that the color of the lion , golde , and sande is named Fuluus in Latine , (TURNER-E1-P1,C1R.28) thus farre Gellius . (TURNER-E1-P1,C1R.29) Whereas Dioscorides writeth of wines he hath these words following . {COM:greek_omitted} which wordes Ruellius translateth thus Giluu~ , vtpote quod mediu~ est , medias inter vtrumque vires habet . (TURNER-E1-P1,C1R.30) But Cornarius in this place turneth {COM:greek_omitted} into fuluum . (TURNER-E1-P1,C1R.31) And in dede I lyke better the translation of Cornarius in this place , than the translation of Ruellius , otherwise an eloquent and learned man , wherevnto moueth me the translation of Galen of our Linacre written in his xij. booke de methodo medendi . Neque inuenies ex alborum vinorum genere calidum vllum , quando austera & mediocriter alba , cum inuetarauerint fuluiora quodammodo reddantur . (TURNER-E1-P1,C1R.32) Quod si aliter nominare fuluum colorem velis , licet voces igneum pallens . (TURNER-E1-P1,C1R.33) Quotquot autem in ipsis calidissima sunt omnia certe flaua sunt . (TURNER-E1-P1,C1V.34) These wordes peraduenture some learned Gentleman or other learned men , had leuer reade in Grake than in the Latine or Englishe alone , for whose sakes I will rehearse Galens owne wordes in his owne tongue , that men maye iudge better of the nature of the woordes , and thereby of Galens meaning , {COM:greek_omitted} (TURNER-E1-P1,C1V.35) Out of all these places of the authours that I haue alleadged , I gather that Fuluus color is it that a man may call in English , redish yelow , (TURNER-E1-P1,C1V.36) for as Virgill calleth Golde Fuluum , bicause it is redishe yellow , our countrymen marking in golde both a readnesse and also a yellownesse , sometimes saye , that a thing is as red as gold , and other whiles , that a thing is as yellow as gold , as commonlye they say that his eyes & skin that hath y=e= disease that is called in Duch , Die guel sucht , and the Northe~ English tongue , y=e= Guelsought , and in Southerne English , the yellowe jaundise , are as yelow as gold . (TURNER-E1-P1,C2R.37) This disease is named in Latin Aurigo of Cornelius Celfus , of the color of gold . (TURNER-E1-P1,C2R.38) Galen seeming to doubt whether al men vnderstoode what he ment by this word {COM:greek_omitted} which Hippocrates vseth in this signification , taketh the paine to open and shewe by two other Greeke words what he meaneth by {COM:greek_omitted} , saying that he thynketh that {COM:greek_omitted} maye bee called {COM:greek_omitted} , that is Wine of a fierye color , hauing mixed therewith the color of yellow Ochar , which ochar is not of a bright yellowe color as {COM:greek_omitted} is , but more darker , whereby a man may plainly know that Fuluum which is called in Greeke {COM:greek_omitted} or {COM:greek_omitted} is a redish yellow color , as our Muscadine and Bastards are {COM:sic} , whe~ as they come to vs are {COM:sic} of . (TURNER-E1-P1,C2R.39) Vinu~ sanguineum , that is sanguine , or bloud coloured Wine , it is that we call commonly in English Clared wine , but not the pale , or pallet as some call it Clared wine . (TURNER-E1-P1,C2V.40) Vinum nigrum , so named of Plinie , and called {COM:greek_omitted} , in Greeke , is foolishly , but commonlye called in English red wine , when as it ought to be called blacke Wine , of the blacke color that it hath in comparison of other wines . (TURNER-E1-P1,C2V.41) And now after that I haue shewed what the foure colors that Plinie maketh mention of , betoken in our English tongue , I will go forwarde to declare the natures of Wines by their naturall colors . (TURNER-E1-P1,C2V.42) Of the nature and properties of white Wines . (TURNER-E1-P1,C2V.44) Dioscorides sayth , vinum albu~ tenue stomacho vtile , ac facile in membra distribuitur . (TURNER-E1-P1,C2V.46) That is , white wine is thin , and good for the stomach , (TURNER-E1-P1,C2V.47) and is easily co~ueyed into the members , (TURNER-E1-P1,C2V.48) and white wine both in sicknesse and in health is rather to be chosen tha~ others . (TURNER-E1-P1,C3R.49) And Galen writing of the nature of white Wine , sayth : {COM:greek_omitted} . (TURNER-E1-P1,C3R.50) That is , ye can finde none of the white wine that is hote , meaning of the common white wines that were about where as he dwelt . (TURNER-E1-P1,C3R.51) Out of Galen in his fift booke de locis affectis . (TURNER-E1-P1,C3R.53) Furthermore , when as a certain yong man being a Gra~marian , as often as he did to earnestlye teach , or deuise of any matter , or waxed hungry or angrye , was taken with the falling sicknesse , by reason of the to much quick feling of the mouth of his stomacke : I commaunded to giue vnto him bread well prepared in the thirde or fourth houre alone , if he did not thirst . (TURNER-E1-P1,C3R.55) But if he were troubled with thirst , to be moystened in wine , (TURNER-E1-P1,C3R.56) and that in white wine which measurably bindeth , (TURNER-E1-P1,C3R.57) for such wine , as it strengthens the stomach , so it hurteth not the head as hote wines are wont to do . (TURNER-E1-P1,C3R.58) Thus farre Galen . Out of whose wordes we maye gather howe vnreasonable and vnlearned they be in Galens workes , that saye that all white wines whether they be Rhennishe or French , or of like nature with eyther or both , are hurtfull for the rheume and other diseases of the head , and forbid their patientes to drinke them for a table or common drinke to be taken with meat , when as Galen alloweth it for them that haue the falling sicknesse , and sayth that it doth not hurt y=e= stomach , neyther trouble y=e= head as hote wines do , of which sortes they alow some for their patients for common table wine , as diuerse kinds of Clared wine , whereof euery one of them is hotter and more headie and fumish than the common Rhennishe and French wines are , of the which matter we will talke hereafter more largelye , if God will . (TURNER-E1-P1,C3V.59) That the thin , small and waterish wines do not hurt the head , so that they haue a littell astriction , Galen declareth plainely in his booke de euchymia & cacochymia , in these words . (TURNER-E1-P1,C3V.60) And eue=r= as firish red wines , seeing that they are hote of nature , by and by fill the head , euen so those wines that are thin and waterish , and gently binding , are not onlye vnhurtfull vnto the head , but also sometime they take away those small head aches which come of humors gathered togither in the stomach . (TURNER-E1-P1,C4R.61) Out of Aetius . (TURNER-E1-P1,C4R.63) Of all wines , white wines are least hurt , (TURNER-E1-P1,C4R.65) waterish wines neyther breedeth the head ache , (TURNER-E1-P1,C4R.66) neyther hurt the sinewes . (TURNER-E1-P1,C4R.67) Wines that are white in color , nourish least of all other Wines , if they be thin in substaunce , and after a maner like vnto water . (TURNER-E1-P1,C4R.68) Aetius also prescribing a diet for the~ that are deliuered of the stone , how that they maye be preserued from falling into the disease of the stone againe , alloweth a small wine that prouoketh water , and is not verie olde . (TURNER-E1-P1,C4R.69) And the author of the booke of healing of the stone which is ascribed vnto Galen , and iudged of manye to be his , in expresse wordes sayth as followeth here . Vinum sit tenue admodum & album , non ita vetus , dulcia vero & nigra vina , calculosis sunt inepta . (TURNER-E1-P1,C4V.70) That is , let your wines be verye small and white , and not so olde , (TURNER-E1-P1,C4V.71) but sweete wines and blackish red wines are very vnmeete for them that haue the stone . (TURNER-E1-P1,C4V.72) And the author sayeth in the same booke a littell after . Vinum tibi conuenit tenue & album , quod misturam non ita patitur {COM:greek_omitted} , nam eiusmodi facile descendit , (TURNER-E1-P1,C4V.73) & succos qui sunt in nobis attenuat & secernit per vrinas , virtutemque roborat . (TURNER-E1-P1,C4V.74) That is , white and small wine is good and meete for you , which being small , $can $not {TEXT:cannot} abide to be menged with much water , (TURNER-E1-P1,C4V.75) for such wine doth easilye go downe , (TURNER-E1-P1,C4V.76) and maketh subtill or fine the iuces or humors that are in vs , (TURNER-E1-P1,C4V.77) and sifteth them out by the water , (TURNER-E1-P1,C4V.78) and strengtheneth the power of man . (TURNER-E1-P1,C4V.79) Of the natures of white and diuers other wynes , taken out of Actuarius the last of the noble Greeke writers of phisicke . (TURNER-E1-P1,C4V.81) Grosse and thicke wines nourysh much , (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.84) and are cause of grosse bloud , and of the stopping of inward partes , (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.85) but thin or subtill wines which driue out water , are of a contrarye nature , (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.86) for they engender fine or thin bloud . (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.87) Some wines that haue a little astriction , are better for the stomach (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.88) but nourish lesse , (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.89) but sweete wines are of the contrarye nature , (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.90) but white wines are lesse hot tha~ all other wines . (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.91) Of wines are hotest of all redish yellow , (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.92) and next vnto them are hotest , Wines of red color , (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.93) they are least hote that are waterish , which are called in Greke {COM:greek_omitted} , (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.94) bicause they wil not suffer to be delayed w=t= much water , such wines as these do trouble the head least . (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.95) But strong and wel coloured wine are more fit for them that labor for to be of a good pitte , and to looke well . (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.96) But for thee that carest only for the simple health , and for thy liuely spirite , it maye seeme that a weake wine which is white and thin should be sufficient for thee , (TURNER-E1-P1,C5R.97) and thou ought therewith to be content , except thou be compelled to flie for needes sake to vse hoter wines when as thou art to much cooled in thy body . (TURNER-E1-P1,C5V.98) Of the nature of red wine , which here in England is commonly called Clared wyne , and of the nature of blacke wyne which is called commonlye in England red wine , out of Galen in his thirde booke de alimentis . (TURNER-E1-P1,C5V.100) If that whatsoeuer doth norish , be meat , the~ is wine to be placed among the number of meates that is of things that doe feede and encrease the bodie . (TURNER-E1-P1,C5V.102) Of all wines red and thicke wines are most meete to make bloud , as such as neede little chaunging to be turned into bloud , (TURNER-E1-P1,C5V.103) after these folow in order blacke wines , grosse and sweete , and also those which in color is red and blacke , and in substance or composition are thick , ioyned with a binding quality . (TURNER-E1-P1,C5V.104) The same sentence hath Aetius in these words following . Rufa itaque & crassa ex omnibus ad sanguinem generadum commodissima sunt , vt que parua egeant in sanguinem transmutatione . (TURNER-E1-P1,C6R.105) Deinceps nigra simul dulcia ac crassa . (TURNER-E1-P1,C6R.106) Deinde colore idem rufa aut nigra , (TURNER-E1-P1,C6R.107) compage vero crassa , & habentia simul adstringentem qualitatem . (TURNER-E1-P1,C6R.108) Of the fourth booke of Galen de sanitate tuenda . (TURNER-E1-P1,C6R.110) Ecsuse and flie thicke and blacke wines , bicause they make an euill iuice , and enter thorow and go very slowly down , (TURNER-E1-P1,C6R.112) and in the fift booke he sayeth . Such wines as tarie long in the bellie , are none of them fit for an olde man , and that blacke wines that are grosse and thicke , and are binding , tarie and abide long in the bellie and stir up flowinges in it . (TURNER-E1-P1,C6R.113) But they that are blacke and thick , and haue no astriction , in deede they tarie shorter while in the bellie . (TURNER-E1-P1,C6R.114) But yet they stirre not a man to make water , (TURNER-E1-P1,C6R.115) some take them before meat (TURNER-E1-P1,C6R.116) but they are not good for olde men , neyther any other which make a thick iuice , (TURNER-E1-P1,C6V.117) for these stop the liuer , milt and kidneys , whereby it commeth to passe that some olde men vsing these more largelye , fall into the dropsey , (TURNER-E1-P1,C6V.118) and other fall into the stone . (TURNER-E1-P1,C6V.119) Of the natures of wynes after their tastes . (TURNER-E1-P1,D3V.122) The wines that are commonlye brought into England , named by their tastes in Greeke {COM:greek_omitted} that in Latin , dulcia , astringentia , austera & acerba , and such like as are acria and acida , for the most part wherof we haue neuer one proper name in English , though we can name dulce vinu~ well in English , sweete wine : (TURNER-E1-P1,D4R.124) but what shall we call acre , austerum and acerbum in commone vsed English : (TURNER-E1-P1,D4R.125) surely I $can $not {TEXT:cannot} tell , (TURNER-E1-P1,D4R.126) for I $can $not {TEXT:cannot} giue to euery one of these wordes one seuerall vsed English word , without circumlocution , wherfore seeing that the proper English wordes are so harde to be found : and the meaning of the wordes are as little knowen for the most part of all men , I think it shal be necessarye to shewe by the aucthoritie of some old learned writer , what these words adstringens , austerum and acerbum signifie and betoken . (TURNER-E1-P1,D4R.127) If any man say that I nede not take this paine , bicause the great and costlye booke , called Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae , that is , the treasure of the Latin and English tongue , hath done that thing alreadie : I aunswere that I asked counsell of that great booke , and in dede as I found great plentie both-1 of good Latin wordes , and fine maners of speaking , gathered wyth great paines , and ordered with no small learning and iudgement : (TURNER-E1-P1,D4V.128) but in y=e= English , as I found to much plentie of light , and new inckhorne termes : so in some places I founde such scarcenesse , lacke , and want of proper and true Englishe names , that the author is faine to giue one name to diuerse Latin wordes , (TURNER-E1-P1,D4V.129) for when I looked how he englished Acer , he englisheth it thus . Eger , sharpe , tart , soure or fell . (TURNER-E1-P1,D4V.130) Lo , here is great plentie of wordes , (TURNER-E1-P1,D4V.131) and yet we can not tell what acer in taste doth properly signifie , (TURNER-E1-P1,D4V.132) and a little after he writeth these wordes , acer , acidus succus , Vitruuius eger . (TURNER-E1-P1,D4V.133) By this booke we may English lac acidum , eger milke . (TURNER-E1-P1,D4V.134) And afterwarde where as of purpose he expou~deth what Acidus betokeneth , he englisheth it , eger , soure , sharp , (TURNER-E1-P1,D4V.135) and he englisheth acidula pira soure peares , (TURNER-E1-P1,D4V.136) he englisheth Acerbum , vnripe , soure , vnpleasant , and Acerbitas , sournesse or tarte , sharpnesse or grieuousnesse of time . (TURNER-E1-P1,D5R.137) He englisheth Austerus , soure , sharpe , vnpleasant , and gustus austerus a rough or soure tast . (TURNER-E1-P1,D5R.138) Now how shall a man know by this booke what difference is between , acer , acidus , austerus and acerbus , when as he called them all soure , and putteth so small difference betweene one and another . (TURNER-E1-P1,D5R.139) Surely we haue but small helpe of that booke in declaring of these words , & many such other , that are much occupied in phisicke and philosophy , and in other both liberall and mathematical sciences . Wherfore I wishe , to the ende that the booke may be in dede as it is called : that one learned phisition & philsopher like vnto Linaker , one olde and learned gra~marian like vnto Clemond , and one perfite Englishman like vnto Sir Thomas Moore , had the amendment and making perfite of this booke committed vnto them . (TURNER-E1-P1,D5R.140) But now as Terence sayeth , quoniam hac no~ successit , alia aggrediendum est via . (TURNER-E1-P1,D5R.141) Galen in the first of his bookes that he writeth of the powers of simple medicines sayth . Cap. 39. If any man doe taste quinces or apples , or medlers , or mirtels , doubtlesse he shall know that there is an other feeling that is moued vnto vs of these things in y=e= tongue , and another of bodies astringentibus , that is , that are onely binding , (TURNER-E1-P1,D5V.142) for those things that are binding , appeare to driue inwarde that part of vs that they touche in al places equally or in like , as pulling , stopping , as drawing togither . (TURNER-E1-P1,D5V.143) But austera seeme to goe downe euen vnto the bottome , and to moue a rough and vnequal feeling and drying vp and wasting all the moisture of feeling bodies . (TURNER-E1-P1,D5V.144) Furthermore when as that bodie which is moued vnto our tongue doth mightilye drie and draw togither , and maketh it rough euen to the bottome , as choke peares that are not ripe , and cornelles , euerye such is called acerbum , differing from austero in the excesse of these qualities . (TURNER-E1-P1,D5V.145) That is to say , austerum in many things is like vnto acerbo , (TURNER-E1-P1,D5V.146) but acerbum is in all those things wherein they are something like , much stronger and mightier than austerum is : (TURNER-E1-P1,D6R.147) and Galen in another place writeth , that astringent is weaker than acerbum and austerum , in all those properties that they haue anye likenesse in . (TURNER-E1-P1,D6R.148) And Galen in y=e= .ix. booke de simplicium and medicamentorum facultatibus , sayeth that adstringentia draw togither , bind togither , and do make thick our substance , (TURNER-E1-P1,D6R.149) and therfore vpon whatsoeuer part of our bodie they be layde without , by and by they make it full of wrinkles , and draw togither , (TURNER-E1-P1,D6R.150) furthermore after y=e= doctrine of Galen , we may perceiue in some kindes of peares , marked at diuerse times , gustum acerbum , austerum & adstringentem . (TURNER-E1-P1,D6R.151) When the peares are newly growen , if ye taste of them at the first , ye shall perceiue that they are harde and drie , and are verye rough in taste , (TURNER-E1-P1,D6R.152) and then they are called acerba , (TURNER-E1-P1,D6R.153) but after that they are more than half ripe , when that hardnesse and drinesse is gone , (TURNER-E1-P1,D6R.154) then become they moyster and softer , (TURNER-E1-P1,D6R.155) and are in taste austera . (TURNER-E1-P1,D6R.156) And when they are full ripe , they are astringentia , with a sweete taste ioyned therwith . (TURNER-E1-P1,D6R.157) By this discription , I trust wise and learned men by taking of some paine in reading of olde English writers shall come by the knowledge of right and proper English wordes for these .iii. Latin , (TURNER-E1-P1,D6V.159) or els at the least I iudge that men shall vnderstande what difference is betwayne astringens , austerum and acerbum . (TURNER-E1-P1,D6V.160) In the meane time vntill that we may spede better , we may english astringens , binding , austerum , soure binding , and acerbum , rough and binding like choke peares . (TURNER-E1-P1,D6V.161) And Galen lib. 1. simpl medic. facultatibus . cap. 39 and in diuerse other places maketh an open and plaine difference betweene acre and acidum , contrarie to what is alleaged of Vitruuius , who maketh them both one . (TURNER-E1-P1,D6V.162) For Galen sayeth , that acria are calida , and that acida are cold . (TURNER-E1-P1,D6V.163) Acer may be Englished biting sharp , (TURNER-E1-P1,D6V.164) and acidum may be named soure as sorrell , and soure milke , and diuers other things . (TURNER-E1-P1,D6V.165) Actius writeth , that wine that is soure with an harrish binding , so that it be well smelling withall , hurteth the head , but it which is waterishe , neither hurteth the headach neither hurteth the sinewes . (TURNER-E1-P1,D7R.166) Galen also sayth that soure binding wines stoppe flowings , and strengthen the stomach , and hurt not the head , but that they help not them that are fallen into a swounde . (TURNER-E1-P1,D7R.167) Wines that are rough and binding in taste like vnto choke peares , stop vomitings and flowings of the belly , (TURNER-E1-P1,D7R.168) and they coole and drie . (TURNER-E1-P1,D7R.169) Morouer they goe hardlye downe , when as those things that are only of a soure taste , go easily downe . (TURNER-E1-P1,D7R.170) I haue learned by experience sayeth Galen that all those things that binde , and are also soure , are manifestly cold . (TURNER-E1-P1,D7R.171) Simeon Sethi sayeth , wines that are all little and gently binding , & are in color red , and in substance thin , are good for them that are of a good and a meane complexion and temperature that are neither to hote nor to colde , neither to moyst nor to drie , of the which sort I weene we shall finde as few at this time almost , as we $shall $be {TEXT:shalbe} able to finde citizens of Platoes common welth in euery parish of England . (TURNER-E1-P1,D7V.172) And Galen a man of more authoritie than Simeon Sethi is of , writeth in the booke of good and euill wines , that as fierie red wines , for asmuch as they are hote in working , by and by fill the heade , euen so those wines that are thin and waterishe , and doe lightly bind , not only ar not vnnoysome vnto the head , but also take awaye small headaches , (TURNER-E1-P1,D7V.173) and he saith afterward , all wines that are binding , are comfortable for the stomache , and that such as are soure and colde , be of subtill partes , but they that are binding , are of grosse partes de simplic. med. facultatib. lib. 4. cap. 2. (TURNER-E1-P1,D7V.174) Whatsoeuer things are sweete , $can $not {TEXT:cannot} be colde , (TURNER-E1-P1,D7V.175) therfore sweete wines are of an hote complexion : (TURNER-E1-P1,D7V.176) and Dioscorides sayth , sweete wines hath grosse partes in it , and doth breath out of the bodie more hardlye , (TURNER-E1-P1,D7V.177) it filleth the stomache full of winde , (TURNER-E1-P1,D7V.178) it troubleth the bellye , and the guttes as Must doth , (TURNER-E1-P1,D7V.179) but it maketh not a man so sone drunken , (TURNER-E1-P1,D7V.180) but it is most fit of all other for the kidneys & the bladder . (TURNER-E1-P1,D8R.181) Simeon Sethi of the nature of Wines . (TURNER-E1-P1,E1V.184) Some vse wine for profit , some to make them merie withall , and some for pleasure , and some for all these purposes . (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.187) Wine doth not only nourishe , (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.188) but also maketh the meates go wel downe , (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.189) and stirreth vp the naturall heate (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.190) and encreaseth it . (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.191) And the most part of them that vse it soberlye , when as their bodie is withered before , they come into a good plight , (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.192) and looke well . (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.193) Wine hath this propertie , that it carieth and leadeth the meat vnto euerye small part , and through streyte wayes by the proper thinnesse or subtilnesse of his partes , (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.194) & it heateth the members and small parts , (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.195) and maketh a good digestion , (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.196) & driueth forth water . Wherfore it sifteth forth the most part of superfluities , (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.197) but the greater power and working of wine may be spied more plainly in colde and withered bodies , and wherein is lesse naturall heat , as in olde men , and in such as are amended of their sicknesse . (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.198) But wine worketh not only these things which we haue spoken of before , in mens bodies , (TURNER-E1-P1,E2R.199) but also sheweth certain chaungings wonderfully in a mans minde . (TURNER-E1-P1,E2V.200) For it maketh men merie , and to haue a good hope , to be manly and liberal , and many that we see before , cowardes , after the drinking of wine , to be made bolde , chearefull , of a good courage , and a good hope , and some that were niggards and filthy pinchers to be made liberall , and free giuers . (TURNER-E1-P1,E2V.201) But wine if it be vsed out of measure , ouerthroweth and drowneth the liuely soundnesse and strength , and the naturall color , (TURNER-E1-P1,E2V.202) and it bringeth the hole palsie , the halfe palsie , the falling sicknesse , and the trembling of the members , (TURNER-E1-P1,E2V.203) it noyeth also the godlye and principall part of the soule , bicause they that gull in wine so , haue mistie and darke senses , (TURNER-E1-P1,E2V.204) and their minde is not cleare . (TURNER-E1-P1,E2V.205) Hitherto Simeon Sethi . (TURNER-E1-P1,E2V.206) Whyte small wines that haue no great smell , are good for the sinewes that are wounded . (TURNER-E1-P1,E2V.207) Wine is good to washe the moyst fleshe that is in olde sores . (TURNER-E1-P1,E2V.208) Waterish wine is necessarie for them that haue the ague , and haue thin iuices therwith , (TURNER-E1-P1,E2V.209) & it may be giue~ in diuers agues , as Galen saith in his booke de methodo medendi , when as the rage of the ague is not great . (TURNER-E1-P1,E3R.210) And althoughe wine when it is taken inwardly hurteth both the sinewes and ioyntes , bicause it fumeth vp into the heade , and breedeth rheumes which fall downe vnto them , yet for all that , if it be layde outwardlye vpon the ioyntes , it strengtheneth them , (TURNER-E1-P1,E3R.211) and maketh them fast when as they are loose by melting awaye or resoluing the moysture that is in them , (TURNER-E1-P1,E3R.212) and for that purpose serueth best of all other blacke wine , (TURNER-E1-P1,E3R.213) for the more that it is binding , the more it strengtheneth . (TURNER-E1-P1,E3R.214) Out of the boke of Galen which teacheth that the maners of the soule , and the complexion of the body follow one another . (TURNER-E1-P1,E3R.216) Wine driueth away sadnesse , and pensiuenesse , (TURNER-E1-P1,E3R.218) but it is ill if it be to largely taken . (TURNER-E1-P1,E3R.219) But if a man wil vse it wisely , it will digest , and distribute or conuey the nourishme~t , increase bloud & norishe , (TURNER-E1-P1,E3R.220) & it wil also make the minde both gentler and bolder . (TURNER-E1-P1,E3R.221) Plato in the .ij. booke de legibus , forbiddeth all children wine y=t= are vnder .xij. houres {COM:sic} old , for that inte~t y=t= they should not be driuen therwith into madnesse , (TURNER-E1-P1,E3V.222) he suffreth them that are full growen in age , to vse it , bicause it is a remedie against y=e= grieuousenesse of age , and driueth away sorowes , & swageth the hardnesse of maners , (TURNER-E1-P1,E3V.223) the age of springoldes or of growing children , is hote and full of muche bloude , (TURNER-E1-P1,E3V.224) contrarywise the olde age is colde , (TURNER-E1-P1,E3V.225) and wanteth bloud , (TURNER-E1-P1,E3V.226) therefore the drinking of wine is profitable for olde men , (TURNER-E1-P1,E3V.227) but to them that are in growing , it is exceeding hurtfull , (TURNER-E1-P1,E3V.228) moreouer Plato did not suffer that the souldiers shoulde drinke any wine in the campe , neyther bondmen in the citie , neyther princes nor gouernors in the co~mon wealth , neither iudges , neither any other that should enter in the counsell about any matter , bicause that wine as a certain tyrant doth rule & ouercome the powers of the soule . (TURNER-E1-P1,E3V.229) Hitherto Galen . (TURNER-E1-P1,E3V.230) But bicause it hath bene diuerse times sayd , that wine is good for olde men , and it is not as yet fullye shewed what maner of wine that should be , it $shall $be {TEXT:shalbe} best to teache men by Galen what wines are best for old men . (TURNER-E1-P1,E4R.231) Galen lib. 5 de sanitate tuenda , sayth : All your counsell must goe to this ende in chosing of wine fit for old men , that it may be very thin or subtil , in color redish yellow , or yellow , or pale yellow , which is of a middle color betweene bright yellow and white . (TURNER-E1-P1,E4R.232) There are two profites that come to old men by the vse of wine , (TURNER-E1-P1,E4R.233) one is , that it warmeth all the members of their bodies , (TURNER-E1-P1,E4R.234) and the other is , that it scoureth out by the water all the whayishnesse or thin waterishnes of the bloud , (TURNER-E1-P1,E4R.235) and bicause it doth so effectuallye , it is best for olde men . (TURNER-E1-P1,E4R.236) But such wine is it that is thin in substance , & driueth forth water , and is yellow in color , (TURNER-E1-P1,E4R.237) for that is the proper color of hote wines , and so also which haue bene from the beginning verye white , and haue gotten a certaine yellownesse when they haue waxed old , wherevpon they begin first to be a little yellowishe pale , and afterwarde to be plainly yellow pale . (TURNER-E1-P1,E4R.238) But such wines as are eyther pale yellow , or bright yellow and a fat substaunce increase the bloud , (TURNER-E1-P1,E4V.239) & nourish the bodie by reason whereof they are now & then good for old men , to wete , at such times whe~ as they haue not much wheyish moisture , & would be more plenteously norished , (TURNER-E1-P1,E4V.240) but for all that , aged me~ had more nede for y=e= most part , such wines as make a man pisse much , bicause they haue such plenty of waterish excrements . (TURNER-E1-P1,E4V.241) And good reader seeing that almighty God our heauenly father hath giuen thee this noble creature of wine , so manye wayes profitable for our bodies and mindes , thanke him with all thy heart , not onely for it , but also for that he hath sent learned Phisitions to tell thee how , in what measure , and in what time thou should vse them , and not vse them , and for what complexions and ages they are good , and for what complexions and ages they are euill . (TURNER-E1-P1,E4V.242) If thou take any harm by misusing this noble creature of god , blame not him , but thine owne selfe , that hast abused it , contrary to his will , and to the learning of his officers & seruants that taught thee the right vse of it . (TURNER-E1-P1,E4V.243) Honor be giuen to God for euer . (TURNER-E1-P1,E4V.244) Amen . (TURNER-E1-P1,E4V.245) Finis . (TURNER-E1-P1,E4V.247)